Bert, why do you think that "attach" is not working in this case? Did you check it before your advice? :) I agree about "generally bad approach", but it is quite convenient for work with one data set.

Dmitry

On 03/01/2014 18:28, Bert Gunter wrote:
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On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 7:08 AM, Dmitry Pavlyuk
<dmitry.v.pavl...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Sofia!

You need to attach the data file before sorting:
This is false! -- and generally a bad idea.  See ?with
Please do not give advice without checking whether it is correct.

-- Bert


attach(df_final)

or just use full qualified names (like df_final$Y_init)

Dmitry

On 03/01/2014 16:41, Stefano Sofia wrote:
Dear R users,
I have two files of seasonal rainfall data (more than 10,000 rows each); here 
the first 8 rows of each file are reported.

Code_Raingouge,Y_init,M_init,D_init,h_init,m_init,Y_fin,M_fin,D_fin,h_fin,m_fin,Rainfall,N_Values,Quality_Level,Code_Station
2000,1952,12,1,0,0,1953,3,1,0,0,307.20,90,100.0,1510
2000,1953,3,1,0,0,1953,6,1,0,0,153.60,92,100.0,1510
2000,1953,6,1,0,0,1953,9,1,0,0,181.00,92,100.0,1510
2000,1953,9,1,0,0,1953,12,1,0,0,202.40,91,100.0,1510
2000,1953,12,1,0,0,1954,3,1,0,0,153.80,90,100.0,1510
2000,1954,3,1,0,0,1954,6,1,0,0,286.20,92,100.0,1510
2000,1954,6,1,0,0,1954,9,1,0,0,142.80,92,100.0,1510
2000,1954,9,1,0,0,1954,12,1,0,0,186.60,91,100.0,1510
...

Code_Raingouge,Y_init,M_init,D_init,h_init,m_init,Y_fin,M_fin,D_fin,h_fin,m_fin,Rainfall,N_Values,Quality_Level,Code_Station
1056,2004,12,1,0,0,2005,3,1,0,0,93.60,2833,32.8,15
1056,2005,3,1,0,0,2005,6,1,0,0,149.80,4406,49.9,15
1056,2005,6,1,0,0,2005,9,1,0,0,52.80,1440,16.3,15
1056,2005,9,1,0,0,2005,12,1,0,0,191.80,1201,13.7,15
1056,2005,12,1,0,0,2006,3,1,0,0,26.40,336,3.9,15
1056,2006,12,1,0,0,2007,3,1,0,0,59.00,3604,41.7,15
1056,2007,3,1,0,0,2007,6,1,0,0,181.16,4414,50.0,15
1056,2007,6,1,0,0,2007,9,1,0,0,96.00,7337,83.1,15
...

I have to load them as data frames, to merge them and sort them by 
(Y_init,M_init,D_init,Code_Raingouge).

I wrote a short function where I first load the two files as data frames

df_1 <- read.csv(file="prec_all_19521201_19821201.csv", sep=",")
df_2 <- read.csv(file="prec_all_19821201_20111201.csv", sep=",")

then I merge them by

df_final <- merge(df_1, df_2, all=TRUE)

and finally I try to order df_final through

df_final <- df_final[order(Y_init, M_init, D_init, Code_Raingouge), ]

but this returns only the first row.

I read the manual carefully and I saw some examples, but I have not been able 
to do this simple task.
I spent quite a long time and now I decided to ask the list.
Could please somebody help me to show me where the mistake is?

Thank you
Stefano


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